Typographical composing and casting machine.



C. MUEHLEISEN. TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING'AND CASTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 12. 1914.

Patented Apr. 27, 1915.

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CARL MUEHLEISEN, 0F BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO MERGEN'IHALERLIN'OTYJPE COMPANY, A COPJPORA'IION OF NEW YORK.

TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING AND CASTING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 2?, 1915.

Application filed May 12, 1914. Serial No. 837,980.

T 0 aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, CARL'MUEHLEISEN, acitizen of the United States of America, at present residing atGhausseestrasse 23, Berlin, N. 4:, in the Empire of Germany, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Typographical Composing andCasting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in typographical composing andcasting machines such as those known commercially under the trade markLinotype and kindred machines, and of these machines it relatesparticularly to the mechanism for raising the composed lines ofmatrices, or it may be, lines of type dies, for the purpose ofdelivering them to the distributer.

In machines of a certain class there is employed a plurality ofstationary magazines containing different fonts of matrices, adistributer for each magazine, and a socalled primary distributer whichsepa-' rates the matrices of the composed line according to font anddelivers them to the distributer of the proper magazine. In suchmachines, the second elevator, which carries the composed line to theprimary distributer, is compelled to travel a greater distance than inthe more common class of machines employing a single magazine. For thisreason I propose to mount the long arm of the elevator so that it mayturn about an axis located above that about which its connected camoperated lever turns. Further, instead of having the elevator movevertically in a straight path I propose to shift it laterally or axiallyas it is raised and lowered, and thus allow the primary distributer tobe located farther to the right of the machine, as is desirable inmachines of the class mentioned.

The term matrices as hereinafter used, is intended to include bothmatrices and type dies.

The drawing shows a constructional form of the invention, Figure 1 beinga side elevation of a machine embodying the said invention, and Fig. 2 afront view of a part of Fig. 1, drawn to a slightly larger scale.

The matrices are raised in the known manner by the second elevatormatrix carrier bar a, and the second elevator long lever b, pivotallycarrying the bar a, according to the present invention, is free to moveangularly about the axis of a horizontal shaft 0 supported in rigidbracket arms (1 and e. Upon the shaft 0 there is also provided a secondlever f which is connected by means of a connecting link 9 to a lever'0' fast on a horizontal shaft It. A compression spring is interposedbetween the link 9 and the lever 2' serves as a bufler. Upon the shaft7b there is also provided, a second elevator cam lever m operated in theknown manner by the second elevator cam n on the known cam shaft 0 ofthe machine, this cam, in accordance with the present invention, servingto actuate the second elevator long lever 75 through intermediatepower-transmission devices. The lever may also be movable laterally bymaking it together with its boss and the lever 7", all as a singleentity, slidable upon the shaft 0, and providing on the lever 7, aroller 37 which engages with a stationary slotted cam 9 so that thelever b will be moved laterally in opposite directions at the same timeas it is rocked upward and downward.

Having described my invention I declare that what I claim and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is 1. In a typographical composing and castingmachine, the combination with a matrix carrier bar, a second elevatorlong lever to which that bar is pivoted, a shaft about the axis of whichthe said lever is capable of turning, and a lever arm operatively fastto that lever and located to one side thereof, of a cam-operated leverfast to another shaft parallel with the first-named shaft, the saidshaft, a lever arm fast to this shaft, and devices elasticallyconnecting the two lever arms together.

2. In a typographical composing and casting machine, the combinationwith a matrix carrier bar, a second elevator long lever to which thatbar is pivoted, a shaft about the axis of which the said lever iscapable of turning, and along which shaft it is capable of movingaxially, and a lever arm fast to that lever, of a stationary camengaging the lever arm so as to cause it and the lever to move axially,a cam-operated lever fast to another shaft parallel with the firstnamedshaft, the said shaft, a lever arm fast to this shaft, and deviceselastically connecting the two lever arms together. i 3. In atypographical machine, the combination of a matrix carrier, an operatinglever therefor, and a cam operated lever, a shaft upon which it ismounted, alever arm also mounted on the shaft and located to one 'sideofthe cam operated lever and oper- 5 atively connected therewith, andconnections between the lever arm and the operating lever for the matrixcarrier.

4 In t po raphical m the bination of a matrix carrier, its operating 10lever mounted to turn vabout a transverse axis a cam operated levermounted to turn @bdilt difie'rent r s erse ax and p ati el en ieeted mthe O e at n lever, a mean fer Shifi'ing operating lever axiall 1 i fili lizi movems fi- CARL MULQHLEISEN.

Witnesses HENRY HASPER, VVOLDEMAR HA PT.

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